Stanage bay

After leaving Notch point we head to Stanage bay a friend used to rave about this place so I had high expectations the thing is no one mentioned the road in rough! I used to think the road to WIpa was crook but the road in here is to say the least not good. to be fair the army also use this road and they had just completed a big exercise but everyone we spoke to said how rough this road is, it about 75k long mostly dirt corrugated and some short steep crossings.

Stanage bay is beautiful

Once you arrive at Stanage you find that it is made up of three distinct little villages, the first is just residential and borders on the military training ground the next is residential also and then there is the town area that really only consists of a pub with attached shop camp ground with shower and basic toilet a few houses a boat ramp and that’s it.

when we were there the dept of transport were upgrading the boar ramp and facilities which we’re pretty basic. We had a look at some spots in this park but were not impressed so we asked around and found out there is a bush camping area that is not on the camping sites so back to the residential area in the middle and on to the little esplanade down a dirt track and there was a great almost deserted beach camping area , happy days

Now unless you have a boat there is not a lot to do here except find a fishing spot or a pub and relax, we managed to do both he wind was very strong so we had to find a track to the creek for a fish our hopes were up as Stanage bay is recited to be a great fishing spot and has so we were told the biggest and best mud crabs in Queensland, we found the creek beautiful spot but no fish in fact we could not find anyone who had caught anything the whole time we were there.

We did manage a couple of trips to the Crab pot bar, just for research, and we found it pretty good value, cold beer good selection of wine for Jacky we did not eat there but the food looked and the menu was stacked with seafood options and looked good , as I wrote there is not much to do so we spent our week here walking the beach and taking photos.